J5’s Blog

Paul Frields probably has one of the best posts I have seen about ediquet on planets.  It is quite telling what people post to their blogs or any public identity.  I remeber many a news article about the phenomenon of college grads posting pictures and things that they would otherwise not have shown in public only to find out that a potential employer had googled them resulting in them not getting the job.  So while a blog may be considered the private domain of the owner where they can post whatever they want, it is a reflection on that person and may come back to haunt them.

Well it seems my service provider, 1&1 has finally got the server with my content back up.  It was quite frustrating because they never contacted me and when I contacted them the standard response was, it is a known issue and we have no further explanation. To make things worse they never sent me to a page to check on status or e-mailed me with updates unless I asked. I found out my site was up again by simply checking it every morning. It boggles the mind and makes me think they had some accident and didn’t want to fess up to it. Four days without an explanation is unacceptable.

However, in the four years I have been with them this is the first major hiccup but now they are on notice. If it happens again I may need to take my business elsewhere.

I’m not going to get into details because I have no interest in a pissing match but I am sure anyone who has been in any large Open Source project has had to deal with poisonous people. It sucks even more when that poisonous person trumpets themselves and actually has an audience of easily gullible listeners who’s eyes have wool pulled over and ears, cotton shoved into. It sucks yet even more when that person leaves the project, and then becomes self proclaimed pundit of the project, proclaiming to have the cure to all ills, as the person proclaimed when part of the project as well. And the total suck comes from the fact that that person, who was at first a trusted member of the project and given much responsibility, who failed on almost every single one of their given tasks, is one of the main reasons for any issues which said person now sells the cure for. We call people like this snake oil salesmen, charismatic people with no morals other than their own desire to get ahead at any cost, and it suck to see people like this still exist and still can pull one over on the masses. This day is the suxor.

From Matt Asay’s interview with our new CEO:

Tell me a little bit about yourself. What are the last three bands you listened to on your iPod?

I don’t have an iPod (or a Zune). It won’t play Ogg Vorbis files.

This is from a guy who knows a thing or two about generating profits and value. It is an exciting time to be a Red Hat employee.

Getting in touch with my Italian roots while running around Florence was great fun.  Thank you Dorothy and Karl for getting married and sharing the moment with all your friends and family.  I’m busy uploading all of the photos which I managed to save after my camera started corrupting the memory card.  More on my time in Italy later. Now it is time to go and check out buzzgrinder.com - a music blog one of the guests at the wedding maintains.